EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme (TMS) Sweden for employers

Eligible employers

• Small or medium sized enterprise/organisation with less than 250 employees.
• Legally registered in an EU country, Norway, or Iceland.
• Provide post-placement support services for the newly recruited worker(s) to facilitate the integration in the new job, detailed in an integration programme.

Basic conditions for the recruited workers

• 18 years or older.
• Citizen and resident of an EU country, Norway, or Iceland.
• Or EU long-term resident in an EU country, Norway, or Iceland (to be eligible, third-country nationals must have lived in the EU country where they apply for an uninterrupted period of five years and fulfill some further requirements, as defined in Directive 2003/109/EC).
• Looking for work in other country than their country of residence (must be a change of country of residence).
• Not be moving back to work in country of origin, or country where you have previously, at some point, been resident, i.e., lived/studied/worked, so called return mobility.

Eligible work placements

• Minimum 6 months employment (3-6 months for traineeships).
• Working hours must be at least 50 percent of full-time work.

• Must be advertised as a job vacancy, published and open to several workers to apply for (transparency).

• Must comply with national labour and social protection laws and ensure fair wages and work conditions, such as collective agreements or minimum wage.

• Must ensure a salary and a written contract specifying the duration of the employment, working time, rights and obligations, remuneration and social security provisions.
• Can also be a work-based traineeship.
  (Traineeships under TMS Sweden should comply with the European Quality Framework for Traineeships (QFT) and be managed by the project partners: Allianssi Youth Exchanges, Better Business international (BBi) or IFOA. Please contact one of them for more information about traineeship opportunities.)

Non-eligible work placements

• Placements with European institutions and bodies and other international policy, economic, social, and scientific organisations as well as supra-national regulatory bodies and their agencies. Applies also to EEA networks, platforms, lobbies, or other similar organisations when their budget resources depend exclusively or mainly on EU funding.
• Placements within sales and telemarketing, businesses with high staff turnover or with one or more days of unpaid trial work/training before employment or which offers only commission with no fixed wages.
• Placements with employment in one country and actual work in another country (so called posted worker).
• Work-based training offers whose completion is a mandatory requirement to access a profession in specific sectors (e.g. medicine, architecture, law, aircraft industry, etc.).
• Free-lance or self-employed.
• Internships and apprenticeships.
• Babysitter, au pair or nanny.